Improvement in cartridge-capping machines



E.A.KELSEY[ lmproyementin'Cahdge-Capping Machne No.l30,724.

P- atented Aug. 20, 1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT .QEEIGE i EPHRAIM A. KELSEY, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARTRIDGE-CAPPING MACHINES.

Spccilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,724, dated August 20, 1872.

tutes part of this specification, and represents Figure 1, a side'view; Fig. 2, a top View; Fig. 3, a sectional view on line y y, full size, looking to the rear, the eoveringplate of the channels removed; and in Fig. 4, a top sectional view, cutting at line w x.

This invention relates to a device for attaching the priming to the external rear end of cartridge-shells, substantially such as known as the Berdan77 primer, the object being to automatically supply the primer or cap to each successive shell introduced to receive the primer; and it consists in one or more channels acting as receiver for a number of primers, combined with a seat upon which to rest the shell, and a punch, which, acting in connection with the said channel, takes from the said channel one of the primers therein and at` taches it to the shell, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the base upon which the cartridgeshell is placed, a seat, a, being formed to receive the head, and b, to receive the forward end, to insure proper relative position tothe shell. A At the rear is arranged one or more channels, B C D, here represented as vertical. But one of these channels is in use at the same time, as more fully hereinafter described. Inthe rear, and in line with the center of the cartridge, a punch or follower, E, is arranged, here represented as being one arm of the lever F, pivoted at f, so, by raising the lever, as denoted in broken lines Fig. 1, the punch is thrown back and depressed, and again thrown forward. The several channels lead tothis punch, as seen in Fig. 3, the central channel represented as opened to the punch; the primers placed in these channels fall to the bottom, the channels beingin width and thickness little more than that of the diameter and depth of the primer. They rem ain in the channels one above the other, those in 'one channel resting upon the-follower E until that is forced back, as before described; then the iirst primer falls in front of the follower, a cartridge-shell havin g been previously placed in the seat; thellever pressed down, as before described, causes the follower to press the primer forward and into place in the shell; the shell is then removed, a second thereon, the primer attached in like manner,

and so on until all the primers in that chan-l nel are used. To supply from the other channels, a portion, b b', of the division between the channels at the bottom (see Fig. 3) is made movable from the outside, so that when the supply of the central channel has been exhausted a portion, b, is swung over to the right, as denoted in broken lines, opening that channel and closing the channel B. This exhausted, the division b is next swung to the left to supply the primers from that channel. Thus many channels may be employed, and, while I prefer that they shall be vertical, as described, because it enables me to rely upon the natural gravitation of the primers to carry them down, other positions maybe used; but, if in line that the gravitation-cannot be relied upon, artiiicial means, as springs, must be employed.

Claims.

l. In combination with the channel B, one or more, as a supply-receiver ot' the primers, I claim the follower E port the shell in the proper relative position.

2. In combination with the subject-matter of the first clauseI claim a movable division, b b', substantially as and for the purpose specied.

3. In combination with the subjectmatter of the first clause I claim the lever F. for operating the saidfollower, substantially as described. I y

Witnesses: EPHRAIM A. KELSEY.

E. H. LooMrs, GEORGE W. SMITH.

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